[petsc-dev] [Mike McQuaid] Re: [Homebrew/homebrew-core] PETSc: import from homebrew-science (#23598)

Satish Balay balay at mcs.anl.gov
Sun Feb 25 12:20:46 CST 2018


On Sun, 25 Feb 2018, Jed Brown wrote:

> I now also see that it writes an uninstall script that would delete
> /usr/bin if the user installed with --prefix=/usr.

I didn't realize this.. There should never be a 'rmtree' in the
uninstall script - as prefix is usually a location shared by multiple
packages.

For now I'll revert https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/commits/e22ab8e6ea0

Satish


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